100,000 Applications Available for the iPhone Appleโ€ s App Store Still the Most Successful in Town

Apple s App Store is without a doubt one of the most important feature
the iPhone has brought to the telecommunication world. Whether you like
or hate Apple, you have to admit that the App Store is one of its best
products. Apple was first to realize the importance of content when it
comes to smartphones and made sure it was the first company to launch
such a concept.

All the major players in the business followed soon with their version
of the App Store. Microsoft has the Marketplace, Google has the Android
Market, Palm has the App Catalog and Nokia has the Ovi Store. Other
companies have also come up with an application store or are toying with
the idea: T-Mobile, Samsung, Verizon Wireless and more.

But the real winner here is Apple. The App Store is a lot more popular
than anything else the competition has to offer while and new
applications are added every day. To date the App Store has more than
100,000 apps available for the iPhone. 101,843 apps to be precise! Out
of those just about 93,000 have hit the store but that s still an
impressing number. Apple has already hit 2 billion downloads and that
number is only going up. About a year ago there were only 10,000 apps
available, so who knows where we will be next year at this time?

Sure an application store would be nothing without a hot phone. Apple
has the hot phone too and iPhone sales are still going up. Apple has
sold over 34 million iPhones already and that number will also be going
up. The Cupertino-based company is getting deals with new carriers out
there as most exclusivity deals are about to expire.

The only thing that one can hate about the App Store is that Apple has
no problem rejecting some apps from the store which we, the consumers,
would definitely love. The most famous case is Google s Google Voice, an
app that was banned from the App Store recently. And although the FCC
has been investigating the case nobody seemed to be responsible for the
rejection.

What about you? Have you purchased your iPhone yet? How many apps are
you currently using on your iPhone?